Jun 04, 2020 - Sale 2535

Sale 2535 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Mysteries.

Collagraph, printed in brown, circa 1970. 370x440 mm; 14 1/2x17 3/8 inches, wide margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection, New York; private collection, New York; acquired by Swann Galleries, Feburary 19, 2008.

We have found only one other record of this scarce, experimental collagraph, the one described as a "sugarlift" in Gelburd/Rosenberg. Gelburd/Rosenberg 19.